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eHarvesting using SPIRES. Heath O’Connell/Travis Brooks Fermilab/SLAC http://library.fnal.gov http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires. The SPIRES Database: History. Started in 1968 at SLAC to record HEP preprints. Searchable by author, title, report number, …
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eHarvesting using SPIRES Heath O’Connell/Travis Brooks Fermilab/SLAC http://library.fnal.gov http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires Heath O'Connell - Fermilab
The SPIRES Database: History • Started in 1968 at SLAC to record HEP preprints. • Searchable by author, title, report number, … • Tracks number of citations to articles • From 1974 DESY added published articles. • Matched them with the preprints. • 1985: database is searchable by email. • 1991: database is first website in U.S. Heath O'Connell - Fermilab
The SPIRES Database: Today • 2005: 600k records, 1M searches/month, five labs contributing data. • Partnership between SLAC, Fermilab, and DESY. • Other contributions from JLab, Kyoto U., KEK, Durham U., IHEP (Moscow), and physicists around the world • Primarily used by HEP and other scientists Heath O'Connell - Fermilab
Fermilab and SPIRES • All Fermilab documents are placed in SPIRES. • Makes them easy to find. • Makes it easy to prepare reports for the directorate. • http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires Heath O'Connell - Fermilab
Published Experimental Papers Heath O'Connell - Fermilab
Generating XML for OSTI • SPIRES can produce output in any desired format. • This includes OSTI XML. • OSTI can harvest data, simply by sending a search over the web to SPIRES. Heath O'Connell - Fermilab
XML Example <rec> <accession_num>6137563</accession_num> <title>Revolutions and revelations</title> <author>Quigg, Chris; /Fermilab;</author> <subj_category>72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS</subj_category> <subj_keywords>Phenomenology-HEP, Theory-HEP</subj_keywords> ….. Heath O'Connell - Fermilab
Advantages to OSTI • OSTI automatically gets any updates to the record, such as publication note. • A standard place to retrieve reports from multiple labs: Fermilab, SLAC, JLab? (mostly HEP/Nucl) • With a Standard XML format Heath O'Connell - Fermilab
Advantages to Lab • SPIRES collaborative effort allows one to find papers that authors have not submitted to Tech Pubs Office (“leaks”). • Other Labs contribute to enhancement of your records: Journal information, experiments, conferences, etc. • No need to develop a new system for eharvest. • SPIRES ensures high visibility for your papers. Heath O'Connell - Fermilab
Problems with Duplicates • When OSTI harvests from SPIRES (or any site) it can build up duplicates at OSTI’s site. • One might wish to narrow harvest only to new documents (easy to do in SPIRES). • Alternatively, pre-existing OSTI docs could be tagged in SPIRES. Heath O'Connell - Fermilab
Summary • SPIRES offers an easy way to make your labs’ papers highly visible. • Makes it simple to find “leaks”. • Enables you to quickly generate Publications reports for your Directorate. • Gives you a straightforward way to set up eharvesting with OSTI. Heath O'Connell - Fermilab